Improvement in car-btees



UNITED 1 STATES JosE MEDINA, or e'oenova, sears.

IMPROVEMENT m ene srees.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154.70% dated September 1,1874 'appiieation filed January 5, 1874.

v senger-Register, of which the following is a specification in the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents an end elevation of a street-car provided with my attachment, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof with a fragment in section.-

The invention relates to an improvement in the class of street-ears which are provided with hinged or spring steps, so arranged as to op: crate a registering apparatus whenever pressure 13 applied by a passenger entering or leavingthe ear. The improvement consists in the combination, with the hinged steps which operate the registering apparatus, of devices for raising or adjusting said steps topreve'nt passengers from getting onor 011' the platform at will.

The streetcar A is constructed with theordinary platform, to eaehside of which a rightangled step, B,'is hinged, as shown.

In Fig. 1 one of the steps is represented as raised and the other lowered. The means of raising them are pivoted hand-levers G and sliding rods 0, one to each step. The levers,

which are under the control of the conductor,

are-arranged vertically and have their fulcrtim above the platform, while the rods slide horizontally in suitable bearings below the same. Tl'iefree ends of said rods work in contact with a sp1'ing-plate,'a, which is'applicd to the hack of each step. Thus, when the levers are operated to thrust the rods forcibly against pose specified.

the plates 01, the steps are raised or turned on their hinges. When one or the other of the" steps is again lowered it operates an ordinary registering apparatus, D g h h", throughthe medium or pawl e,rod e, lever d, and a ing or arm, h, which is Oil-T1116 back of the step, as

.will be readily understood from the drawing.

- This operation of the registering apparatus may, however, depend, or be made to depend, on the strength or resistance of the spring (I, so that the registering apparatus will make no record until the passenger mounts or descends from the platform. i

The levers d are supported at their inner or adjacent ends by a spring, 0.

As the steps are raised and lowered solely to let passengers on or ad the ear their numher will be recorded on. the dial of the'registering apparatus. I

In addition to their ofifice of operating the registering apparatus, the steps prevent passen gers getting on or oil the cars at will, where by many accidents are avoided. They are also a check on the conductor, since a iailnre to raise the steps ,while the ear is in motion would he considered. equivalent to an attempt to defraud the railroad company.

Elavin g thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- The combination of the levers G, guide-rods G, and pivoted steps B, as and for the pur- Josn MEDINA.

Witnesses:

T. B. MosHEn, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

